FRANCIS

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• FRANCIS LATHROP (1849–1909)

LATHROP (1849–1909)  , American artist, was born at sea, near the Hawaiian Islands, on the 22nd of June 1849, being the great-grandson of Samuel Holden Parsons, and the son of George Alfred Lathrop (1819–1877), who for some time was United States consul at Honolulu . He was a pupil of T . C . Farrar (1838–1891) in New York, and studied at the Royal academy of Dresden . In 1870–1873 he was in England, studying under Ford Madox Brown and Burne-Jones, and working in the school of William Morris, where he devoted particular attention to stained glass . Returning to America in 1873, he became known as an illustrator, painted portraits, designed stained glass, and subsequently confined himself to decorative work . He designed the chancel of Trinity church, Boston, and decorated the interior of Bowdoin college chapel, at Brunswick, Maine, and several churches in New York . The Marquand memorial window, Princeton chapel, is an example of his work in stained glass . His latest work was a series of medallions for the building of the Hispanic American society in New York . He was one of the charter members of the Society of American Artists, and became aq associate of the National Academy of Design, New York, of which also William L . Lathrop (b . 1859) an artist who is to be distinguished from him, became a member in 1907 .

He died at Woodcliff, New

Jersey, on the 18th of October 1909 . His younger brother, GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP (1851–1898), born near Honolulu on the 25th of August 1851, took up literature as a profession . He was an assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly in 1875–1877, and editor of the Boston Courier in 1877–1879 . He was one of the founders (1883) of the American copyright league, was prominent in the movement for Roman Catholic summer schools, and wrote several novels, some verse and critical essays . He.was the author of A Study of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1876), and edited the standard edition (Boston, 1883) of Hawthorne's works . In 1871 he married in London the second daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne—Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (b . 1851) . After his death Mrs Lathrop devoted herself entirely to charity . She was instrumental in establishing (1896) and subsequently conducted St Rose's free home for cancer in New York City . In 1900 she joined the Dominican order, taking the name of Mother Mary Alphonsa and becoming superioress of the Dominican community of the third order; and she established in 1901 and subsequently conducted this order's Rosary Hill home (for cancerous patients) at Hawthorne, N.Y . She published a volume of poems (1888); Memories of Hawthorne (1897); and, with her husband, A Story of Courage: Annals of the Georgetown Convent of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1894) .